Heterohyus morinionensis Hooker 1986 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Cimolesta - Apatemyidae

Full reference: J. J. Hooker. 1986. Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 39(4):191-478

Belongs to Heterohyus according to J. J. Hooker 1986

Sister taxa: Heterohyus (Gervaisyus), Heterohyus armatus, Heterohyus ilerdensis, Heterohyus nanus, Heterohyus pygmaeus, Heterohyus quercyi, Heterohyus sudrei

Type specimen: BMNH M35400, a tooth. Its type locality is Creechbarrow Hill, which is in a Bartonian marine marl/marl in the Creechbarrow Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Creechbarrow Hill

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